![]() ![]() Pacino was just a few years removed from having won, astonishingly, only his first Academy Award… for his vacuous and shamelessly audience-pandering role as the irritable old blind man with the heart of gold in the hopelessly cloying Scent of a Woman. The first (and last time) I previously caught up with Miami Vice creator Michael Mann’s splashy, with a sheen of uber-gloss, mid-90’s LA crime film Heat, packed with famous faces and character actor types and wildly marketed as the first time those gritty superstars who catapulted to fame from out of the brilliant cinematic landscape known as 70’s Hollywood, Al Pacino (as the homicide detective Hanna, legendary on the force for putting away the best of the best from the criminal front) and Robert De Niro (as the super-suave, cold and calculating big-time head thief McCauley, who doesn’t hesitate to kill, or walk away from anyone in ‘30 seconds’, if his survival depends on it) would appear in a film together across from each other (they were in Godfather Part II back in the early days, but that didn’t count, as they appeared in different timeframes), came at a time that I was beginning to grow slightly wary of the two all time thesp giants that I had previously worshipped unconditionally at the celluloid altar. Cinéma de Sève, part of the Cinéclub/The Film Society program
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